Monday - September 19, 2011

Teach Your Children Well

We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kids Book of Freedom is a coloring book about the tragic events of 9/11 2001, featuring pictures of the burning World Trade Center towers and the execution of Osama bin Laden.

Although Wayne Bell, publisher of Really Big Coloring Books Inc., in Saint Louis, says the book was never meant to be controversial, and that it’s simply based on market research, on what people are looking for, the fact that it contains scenes like Osama bin Laden being shot by a Navy SEAL has sparked some controversy. Bell goes on to describe the coloring book as “a simplistic honest tool” to “educate children on events on 9/11″, but do kids who still like to color need to see scenes of mourning, burning buildings, and the execution of a Muslim man portrayed as hiding behind his veiled wife?

The original book We Shall Never Forget 9/11 - The Kids Book of Freedom, will completely sell out soon and is no longer available at wholesale pricing. We Shall Never Forget is the fastest selling book in our company history; traveling to 157 countries, YES, 157 countries, via email, download or regular mail in less than three weeks. Once these last few original copies sell out, this book will no longer be available from the Publisher, Really Big Coloring Books, Inc. Thank you to all.

To the American people and all others who may read this child’s coloring book, We Shall Never Forget is designed (8.5” x 11”, 36 pages.) to be a tool that parents can use to help teach children about the facts surrounding 9/11. This book also describes basic freedoms in America. We suggest parental guidance. As the 9/11 events are shown countless times on national media, this book will help children understand the meaning of these events. The book was created with honesty, integrity, reverence, respect and does not shy away from the truth.In this book you will see what happens to a terrorist who orders others to bomb our peace loving wonderful nation.

The September 11, 2001 attacks on America are now commonly referred to as 9/11. It was a series of coordinated attacks by a radical Islamic Muslim extremist terrorist group who call themselves Al Qaeda. They were self-proclaimed Jihadists; many American people refer to them as homicide bombers. Their leader was a Saudi national named Osama Bin Laden. He and his men used hijacked U.S. airplanes as weapons.

OTOH ...

Believing that the upcoming 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 is best memorialized in crayon, Really Big Coloring Books, Inc. is publishing a new coloring book entitled “We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kids’ Book of Freedom.” In offering kids the option of coloring the Twin Towers burning, mourning survivors, or the Navy SEALs shooting Osama Bin Laden, publisher Wayne Bell insists that “the doodles represent patriotism,” a “simplistic, honest tool” to “help educate children on events on 9/11.” But many Muslims describe it as, in a word, “disgusting.”

Fun With Killing Bin Laden: Coloring books are meant to inspire children’s creativity, but the new “We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kids’ Book of Freedom” channels that impulse in a shocking direction. Published by Really Big Coloring Book Inc. and intended as a “learning tool” to help teachers explain the terrorist attacks, the book features a page showing a SEAL firing a bullet straight at Bin Laden, who is shown (inaccurately, as it turns out) using a woman as a human shield — more or less challenging tot artists to fill in their own splatter and gore. Publisher Wayne Bell defends the page as being “mild compared to the graphic video games children play,” but since when is a coloring book judged by those standards? [Chicago Tribune]

Not really mentioned in the few reviews and news stories that covered this is that the author added a fair amount of text to the book. So it isn’t just for those kids too young to read, unless the text is there for the parents to help tell the story?

Posted by Drew458     on 09/19/2011 at 08:17 AM   
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